Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I think there's always a conflict within me about being comfortable and secure and then being an individual and fighting for what I want to be on an individual basis.

Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

Kept looking for something to be in with. Follow someone's blueprint. But you have to be on your own.

I don't want to follow the map of what the music industry does because I've already lived the industry and I still live the industry so I already understand how it works. The industry doesn't really like us around anyway once we get older because we know too much so, that's fine - cut us off - and we'll find another way to get it out there.

...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.

It's better to live as your own man, than as a fool in someone else's dream.

Why didn’t you come tell me he was heading out alone? (Kat) ’Cause he does it all the time. Didn’t think anything about it. But now that you’re here I’ll make sure and keep you updated on everything he does. That way you can cut his meat up for dinner and help him tie his shoes and use the potty, too. (Damien)

I went out on my own, years ago, to try to create some additional choices in a parallel universe.

Everything pays for growing tame.

A girl is like a young tree, she said. You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the only way to grow strong and straight. But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak. You will fall to the ground with the first strong wind. And then you will be like a weed, growing wild in any direction, running along the ground until someone pulls you out and throws you away.

Sometimes you wish you could go back and ask your teachers again to guide you; but up there onstage, exactly where they always wanted you to be, you must simply find your way. They have given all the help they can; the only person who can solve the labyrinth of yourself is you.

You can do right or you can do what you are told. And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold.

I have been styling my own hair since I was four years old ... and I still don't let anyone else touch it to this day. I cut, color, style, and spray my own hair, on all sets and shoots, that's just the way it goes. I get way too nervous when someone else starts to mess with it.

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered !My life is my own.

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

It's a product of being an actor, you know? A lot of your work doesn't end up on camera and some of the best things aren't always in the final product. But yeah, a lot of my stuff got cut and it was painful, but I know it was for the better of the movie.

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.

They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure.

We know the only fish that goes with the flow is a dead fish.

Never follow a follower who is following someone who has fallen. Its why the whole world is falling apart.

It's more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two.

From birth to death we are alone.

I don't see why we ever think of what others think of what we do – no matter who they are. Isn't it enough just to express yourself?

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.